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To: RetiredNow who wrote (235980)	6/6/2005 3:36:31 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571686

I agree that civil liberties have contracted as the needs of security have expanded. But that is exactly the new balance that is needed in this new world of individual terrorists with access to mass destructive capabilities. I am unclear what you think is happening............the restrictions being put into place are very hit or miss. For an example, one of the concerns of terrorist experts has been the porousness of our borders. It has been over 3 years since 9/11 and in spite of the experts' numerous complaints, some guys called the Minutemen had to bring attention to the fact that our borders are very unsecured. After all the publicity, Congress or Bush has yet to do anything of consequence. In the meantime, last fall, a plane carrying the singer Cat Stevens was forced to turn around and go back to England because the singer had converted to Islam. This apparent contradiction can be very confusing until you stop and figure out that the right is restricting freedoms where it wants them restricted and ignoring those that don't work for it. So please, don't spin to me that we are in a new world where danger lurks around every corner. Terrorism is not new.......its been around for centuries.......and as long as we have a president who keeps poking beehives with a big stick, we aren't about to have any peace for quite some time.